Track Listing

1. Something Better to Do
2. Lovers
3. Slow Down Jackson
4. He's My Rock
5. Sail into Tomorrow
6. Crying, Laughing, Loving, Lying
7. Clearly Love
8. Let It Shine
9. Summertime Blues
10. Just a Lot of Folk (The Marshmallow Song)
11. He Ain't Heavy...He's My Brother

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #22733 in Music
• Released on: 1998-10-03
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

Customer Reviews

A brilliant album from 1975
Like other albums from Olivia around that time, Clearly love is full of top quality pop country music, although not everybody thought that back then. Perhaps to convince people that she really was a country girl, the pictures in the booklet show Olivia in a rural setting, usually in the company of a horse or a dog.

The set opens with the wistful Something better to do, which sets the standard for what follows. There are several other great ballads, including Lovers (a Mickey Newbury song) and Slow down Jackson. Let it shine, a bright, upbeat song, was the main single. There are also excellent covers of He ain't heavy he's my brother (Hollies), Summertime blues (Eddie Cochran) and He's my rock (I don't know the original artist, but it was later recorded by George Jones as She's my rock).

While this album does not contain any of Olivia's really big hits, it is a really lovely album that all fans of Olivia's early music will treasure.

A feel good album by the talented Olivia
This album is worth buying just for the track Clearly Love which is so beautiful that you almost want to cry when Olivia sings it.
Something better to do, Lovers which is a sad song about the end of a relationship, Slow down Jackson, The very catchy He's my rock, Sail into tomorrow which is another wonderful Olivia ballad, Crying, Lauging Loving, Lying and Let it shine are all on this album.
Summertime blues, Just a lot of folk (The marshmallow song) is another good track and the beautiful He ain't heavy he's my brother complete the track list.
A great Olivia album which contains some very rare tracks.

A superb collection of laid-back tunes
I wasn't old enough to remember this album's original release, but I'm thinking that it has never received the credit it so rightly deserves. There are some absolute treasures on this album, including the title track which is simply amazing, and I was pleasantly surprised at just how strong an album this is. Pop/country cross-over at its best, and arguably Olivia's strongest album at the time of its release.

There are, however, a couple of questionable songs on the album, most noticably Olivia's bash at the uptempo "Summertime Blues"; the track simply does not suit her soft vocals & was rather unfortunately placed right in the middle of what would have been "side B" of the vinyl. The album finishes with a rather unconvincing cover of The Hollies, "He Ain't Heavy...He's My Brother", but that may just be a personal thing; the original was such a classic that I can't imagine anyone ever improving on it.

If you found Olivia via her later recordings and fancied trying some of her earlier albums then you can't go far wrong with this one, which goes well with the fine album, "Don't Stop Believin".